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Nothing serious!

Play in a proper football match
Camping at Kildonan
Seventies disco in the Kilmenny

Your turn :D
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Being allowed to go down the shore ourselves (probably about 8 years old)

First gig (The Jam at the Magnum)

First pint in the grangeknowe (15/16 years old)
Those wimin were in the nip.
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Working in the Melbourne after school for 1/9d an hour
Buying a tipped single for 3d - usually Bristol
Pies or sausage rolls for tea on a Saturday
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Going for weekend breaks in my mothers caravan at Spean Bridge (Fort William) Age 16/17

Going to play hockey on Saturday mornings all around Ayrshire - 13

Playing putting in the floodlit putting green surrounded by Fairy lights. 7/8
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My big sister Anne singing " She'll be Coming Round the Mountain " while she pushed me on the swing.

Summer afternoons going over Fairlie Moor, all of us packed into my Grandad's big car.

Howie's rolls still warm from the oven.

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Playin fitba at Harveys Park
Hunting crabs at the North shore
fishing at the lighthouse doon the harbour.
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Playing down the inches on the Smt buses,
Swimming at Gerry’s pier,
Playing on the barrow in town station tunnel
Queuing down the side of the Lyric for matinée
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I caught up with this topic while on holiday, and was surprised that it hadn't run longer. There are surely those of us of a certain age group who could revive lots of memories.

I'll start off my contribution with 5015 ("fifty-fifteen") - the family's Co-op dividend number. It's unforgettable.
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Penny Tray wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:16 pm I caught up with this topic while on holiday, and was surprised that it hadn't run longer. There are surely those of us of a certain age group who could revive lots of memories.

I'll start off my contribution with 5015 ("fifty-fifteen") - the family's Co-op dividend number. It's unforgettable.
My mum’s (never my dads for some reason) coop number is my bank pin - it’s tattooed inside my brain and I’ll NEVER forget it. The only other person that knew it was Norma and she’s no longer with us so I know it’s secure :lol:
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It would be interested to see who has the earliest Co-op number, our Ardrossan one was 558. :puter
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Despite our Dad being a butcher, our regular Saturday order at the Co-op van was
" A pound of mince, a pound of stew, nine one double two (9122)".
In my 70s now and it's never forgotten!
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For the benefit of younger members and guests, can somebody explain how the Co-op dividend worked.

Of course many of you will remember the (embassy coupons catalogue) the prizes looked good and i remember quite a few people saving up for ages ..only to find out the cigarette coupons went missing. You could sell them everywhere :smt030
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